⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇸 TankerTrackers: Two Iranian supertankers, DIONA and HERO2, have exited the U.S. Navy blockade perimeter carrying a combined 3.8 million barrels, Iran’s first crude oil exports in two months.
A third tanker, STREAM, is now approaching the blockade line after spending seven weeks waiting off Pakistan.
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⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇸🇫🇷 Politico: The Trump administration is discussing ideas to increase oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, including a plan for a fee-based 'VIP pass' naval escort. Despite a memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran, ship owners remain wary of sending vessels through the strait. The US has offered 'political insurance' to ship owners, but the plan has found few takers.
The situation has led to a disruption in the oil trade, causing fuel prices to spike and creating a political headache for the White House. Oil prices have fallen to $75 a barrel as the two countries have started to negotiate a possible long-term peace deal, but still remain higher than they were when the war started.
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⚡🇵🇰🇮🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧 Pakistani Foreign Minister, Ishaq Dar, announced on social media that Pakistan is assisting in the repatriation of 30 Iranian nationals.
This total includes 8 fishermen who were rescued by the British vessel MMA Valour after their boat ran aground, alongside 22 crew members from the vessel Lenore/Davina that was recently interdicted by United States authorities.
Both of these groups are planned to transit through the city of Karachi in the coming days.
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⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱 An Israeli convoy, led by a D9 bulldozer and two Merkava tanks, is advancing towards the town of Haddatha, southern Lebanon.
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⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱 Israeli drones continue to violate Lebanese airspace with drones flying over Beirut and Its suburbs at a very low altitude.
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⚡️🇺🇸 At least 1 person died after a private jet carrying six people crashed near Loop 20 in Laredo, Texas.
Officers and bystanders rescued survivors as emergency responders were seen breaking open the aircraft’s cockpit window at the scene. Five police officers were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation.
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⚡️🇺🇸SOUTHCOM struck a suspected narcotics trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean this Tuesday.
One person was killed while another two survived the strike.
SOUTHCOM immediately notified the U.S. Coast Guard to conduct Search and Rescue operations for the survivors.
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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷Bloomberg: A proposed US-Iran memorandum of understanding outlines an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, with both sides pledging to refrain from hostile actions, respect each other’s sovereignty and negotiate a final agreement within 60 days.
The draft framework calls for the lifting of the US naval blockade, the restoration of full commercial navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, phased sanctions relief, waivers for Iranian oil exports and the gradual release of frozen Iranian assets. It also proposes a $300 billion economic development plan for Iran backed by the United States and regional partners.
Under the document, Iran reiterates that it will never produce nuclear weapons, while both sides agree that issues including enriched uranium stocks and broader nuclear arrangements will be resolved in a final agreement to be overseen through an implementation mechanism and ultimately endorsed by a UN Security Council resolution.
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⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇸 NBC: Iran launched multiple drones toward commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz since the agreement with the United States was announced on Sunday.
U.S. forces reportedly shot down the drones before they could threaten commercial or military vessels in the area.
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⚡️🇱🇧🇱🇧🇮🇱 Additional footage from the area shows Israeli tank fire from Kfar Tebnit towards Maifadoun, southern Lebanon.
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⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱 Al Akhbar correspondent in southern Lebanon:
A large number of Israeli vehicles have withdrawn from the city of Khiam towards Sarda farm and the Omar area south of the city.
The withdrawal is part of the repositioning of the forces or a prelude to a comprehensive withdrawal.
⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇶 IRGC has carried out a drone strike on the headquarters of Iranian Kurdish opposition groups near Koy Sanjaq, east of Erbil in northern Iraq, using multiple Shahed‑136 one‑way attack drones.
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⚡️🇹🇷🇸🇾🇺🇸 Türkiye Today: Syrian President Ahmad al‑Sharaa is weighing a trip to Ankara to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of next month’s NATO summit, even though he is not on the event’s official guest list.
A face‑to‑face meeting is still considered possible as leaders gather in the Turkish capital, but neither the White House nor the Syrian presidency has formally confirmed his plans.
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⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇱🇱🇧🇱🇧 Iranian Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters accused Israel of violating the Lebanon ceasefire 84 times in southern Lebanon over the past two days following President Trump’s announcement of an end to the war.
The headquarters warned that continued Israeli military operations could undermine regional de-escalation efforts and increase tensions.
It added that if the violations continue, Israel could face a “harsh response” from Iran’s armed forces.
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⚡🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Air Force announced that one of its Su-24M front bomber crashed this evening in the Khmelnytskyi region killing both pilots. The Su-24 are based at the Starokostyantyniv airbase in the same region. The Su-24M is the only aircraft in Ukrainian service capable of using the Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missile.
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⚡️🇰🇷🇰🇵 Reuters: South Korea will shift its civilian restricted line an average of 6 km closer to the North Korean border, narrowing the zone that limits civilian access near the DMZ.
Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back said the move reflects the evolving security environment and aims to improve convenience for local residents.
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⚡️🇺🇸🇱🇾 FT: The Trump administration is seeking to broker a power-sharing agreement between Libya’s rival eastern and western administrations in an effort to reunify the country.
US adviser Massad Boulos said Washington’s goal is to establish a unified government and bring Libya’s fragmented institutions under a single authority while encouraging greater US investment in the country’s energy sector.
The proposal would place Saddam Haftar at the head of an executive presidential council, while GNU Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh would remain in office under a transitional arrangement.
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⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱 Two Israeli drone strikes targeted Mansourieh, and a third strike targeted Braachit. Israeli soldiers also fired at a car in Kfar Chouba, with no injuries reported.
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⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱 Overnight the Israeli ceasefire violations continued targeting several southern towns:
Airstrikes:
-Nabatieh El Fawqa
-Outskirts of Kfar Tebnit
- Outskirts of Nabatieh El Fawqa
-Kfar Tebnit
- Ali El Tahir hill
- Kfarjouz
- Outskirts of Nabatieh city
- Khirbet Selem
- Jabal El Rafie
⚡️🇵🇭🇨🇳 The Philippines says a floating platform previously detected at Scarborough Shoal, first seen near the shoal’s entrance and later inside its lagoon, has been removed.
Manila lodged a diplomatic protest over the structure, which Philippine authorities described as likely deployed by Chinese research vessels..
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⚡️🇺🇸 The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) will be renamed U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM), restoring the designation used by the command from 1947 to 2018.
The command said its area of responsibility and mission will remain unchanged.
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⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱 Several artillery shells have struck Nabatieh Al Fawqa area of southern Lebanon.
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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷CNN: the one-and-a-half-page MOU text is intentionally broad and designed to create conditions for further negotiations, while allowing both sides flexibility in presenting the deal domestically.
U.S. officials said key understandings reached through back-channel discussions are not fully reflected in the document.
They added that the framework outlines the prospect of sanctions relief, a future nuclear agreement and access to Iranian funds, while details regarding Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, asset releases and implementation mechanisms are expected to be addressed during upcoming technical negotiations.
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—❗️🇧🇹/🇭🇷 NEW: The Kingdom of Bhutan officially recognized the Republic of Croatia today.
➡️ Following this diplomatic milestone, only two countries in the world—Niger and Tonga—have yet to formally recognize the European nation.
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⚡️🇱🇧🇱🇧🇮🇱 Footage showing what appears to be an Israeli tank burning in the outskirts of Kfar Tebnit, southern Lebanon, after Hezbollah had targeted it.
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⚡️🇺🇸🇹🇷 L3Harris Technologies and Turkey’s Skydagger Technologies have signed an MoU to integrate Skydagger’s low‑cost interceptor drones into L3Harris’ VAMPIRE C‑UxS counter‑drone platform, including drone‑on‑drone interception.
The new VAMPIRE interceptor capability will be manufactured in the United States for allied customers, marking a major step in Skydagger’s international expansion.
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⚡️🇮🇶🇳🇴 Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has ordered state employees to begin work at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow to allow them to watch Iraq’s national team face Norway in the FIFA World Cup.
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⚡️🇸🇾 Abu Amsha, listed on Western sanctions lists for war crimes, receives a "Professional Diploma in Entrepreneurial Leadership" from the Damascus Academy for Training and Entrepreneurship.
Abu Amsha, who was a commander in the so-called "National Army" supported by Turkey before the fall of the Assad regime in late 2014, became a commander in the Ministry of Defense, specifically in the 62nd Division. The latest Western sanctions against him were imposed last year following the coastal massacres.
Abu Amsha enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the unrecognized "Free University of Aleppo" several years ago, after his studies had stopped at the primary level before 2011.
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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 Reuters: A proposed US-Iran agreement includes the creation of a $300 billion Reconstruction and Development Fund aimed at supporting investment in Iran, with more than half of the funding already committed, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The fund would be financed by private-sector entities from the US, Gulf states, Asia, South America and Africa, and is intended to support projects in sectors including energy, transport, manufacturing and logistics.
According to Reuters, the fund would only become operational if a final agreement is reached following the current 60-day memorandum period.
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⚡️🇫🇷🇺🇸 Reuters: French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said the domestic intelligence agency DGSI will phase out U.S. firm Palantir’s data tools in favor of French rival ChapsVision to reduce reliance on foreign technology.
Palantir will remain in use for several years to avoid a “capability gap,” while France invests €655 million in AI, including a “sovereign” chatbot for all state services and a public‑health assistant for insurer Ameli.
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